Former President Donald Trump was recently warned against using his 2024 campaign funds to pay E. Jean Carroll, after being ordered to pay the former columnist stemming from a defamation lawsuit.
On Monday, Dave Aronberg, the state attorney in Florida’s Palm Beach County, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and spoke about the recent jury ruling in New York, which ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defamatory statements he made about her in 2019.
“He’s got to post a bond just to appeal within 30 days of the judgment. So E. Jean Carroll will get her money at some point,” Aronberg said. “He can try to get money from his supporters, but he’s got to tell them what it’s for…He can’t say, ‘Help me with my re-election fund’ and then divert the money to E. Jean Carroll, that would be a crime.”
Trump was previously ordered to pay Carroll $5 million after he was found liable for sexually assaulting the former Elle columnist in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Trump repeatedly denied the allegations, bashed Carroll and said she wasn’t his “type,” prompting the second lawsuit she brought against the former president.
He can’t say, ‘Help me with my re-election fund’ and then divert the money to E. Jean Carroll, that would be a crime."
Fucking lol. As if something being a crime would ever stop him from doing it. What’s anyone going to do? Fine him? Rinse and repeat. The bullshit won’t end until the motherfucker is dead or in prison and only one of those things is ever going to happen.
At this point I’m cheering on McDonald’s to kill him by cholesterol with a big mac
Don’t forget the decades of amphetamine abuse. I’m honestly surprised his heart hasn’t popped yet.
Hamberders: 1
Trump: 0
Trump is going to be immortal in prison forever?
Feds are great at hitting the people they want to with financial crimes because there’s a paper trail.
Someone told Donald Trump not to do a thing? He’s totally going to do that thing now, just to spite this random person, isn’t he?
yeah but this one could be straight up jail time if he lived to be 97 when he would be convicted of it
He is collecting criminal charges like they’re power-ups, though. It helps him build support.
The jan 6 traitors already got six months. Can’t even do that for this demented rapist fraud.
whatever happened to fair and speedy trials?
don’t say reagan
Trump. He doesn’t want fair and speedy trials. His primary tactic is to delay until the other side just gives up. He may not be able to get the US government to “just give up” like he does with the contractors and lawyers he stiffs, but his tactics of indefinite delay still work like a charm.
From Late Night with Seth Meyers last night-
The real trick is to put the real ask as a middle option so it looks more reasonable.
$50 or $84,000,000 or $1 billion?
Well $1 billion is way too much but maybe the next option down…
I love how this is the question on everyone’s mind.
“Oh man. He’s gonna pay that with donor money isn’t he”
It’s not a question. He’s gonna pay that with donor money.
Wait I thought that John Oliver episode basically showed you could use super pac money for whatever the fuck you want. Is there some reason it doesn’t work like that for this?
Committing campaign finance violations is considered a serious crime when it happens. The thing is that you have to go so far out of your way to get anyone to notice or care that you might as well be on a different planet. Thing is, Trump already started off on a different planet and has been travelling further and further away ever since.
I think you need to show that the money was spent on something sort of connected: A private jet to a spa day to make you look good for a debate. I’m not sure I necessarily understand it any better, but that was what I understand it to be.
No, super pacs can go to anything. But the candidate can have no control over the funds. 😉
But my fail son can control the funds and everything will be above board
All true.
Disgustingly true
But the “campaign” itself cannot.
Garrett: "Well, as you know, with PACs like this, we’re not allowed to have direct contact with candidates…
…I’m kidding! I’m Garrett Romney. Mitt’s my dad. But here’s the thing, Jack. My Brother-Dad, which is Mormon for “Dad”, has more money than he knows what to do with."
Jack: “With all due respect, Garrett, I don’t think that’s a thing.”
Looks like “I didn’t know I couldn’t do that” Is out as a defense when he inevitably does that.
That’s basically the cornerstone of their legal defense
That’s basically the cornerstone of their legal defense.
Funny how that’s not a valid excuse for literally every other citizen of the United States.
“Ignorance of the law is no excuse, unless you were a Republican president”
That’s not true. Cops also dont need to know the law.
Where is the betting pool on how long until he violates campaign law?
Please respond soon, there’s not much time.
That’s a sucker bet considering it’s almost assuredly happened already
Dude breaks laws to pay for the laws he broke.
The parody donation commercials just write themselves.
